Pakistan ISI ‘exporting violence’ to Afghanistan: US
September 22, 2011 | Filed under: News | Posted by:
WASHINGTON ‘ The US military’s top officer bluntly accused Pakistan on Thursday of ‘exporting’ violent extremism to Afghanistan through proxies and warned of possible US action to protect American troops. In a scathing and unprecedented public condemnation of Pakistan, Admiral Mike Mullen said the country’s main intelligence agency ISI was actively supporting Haqqani network militants blamed for an assault on the US embassy in Kabul last week. The Haqqani network is probably the most dangerous faction in the Afghan Taliban and founded by a CIA asset turned Al-Qaeda ally. During the 1980s, the CIA funneled arms and cash to the Haqqanis to counter Soviet forces. “The Haqqani Network, for one,…
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